2001-07-30 Apples framtidsutsikter

Last week Apple reported a net profit of $61 million (earnings of $0.17 per diluted share) on $1.47 billion in sales, and the stock price promptly tumbled 22% in 48 hours.

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Apple, on the other hand, hasn’t laid off a single worker. The company has the lowest debt-to-equity ratio in the industry with $4.2 billion in cash. In fact, Apple is actively hiring new talent for their nascent retail initiative and dramatically expanding the number of employees working on applications.

Tipstack till Henrik Wannheden.

2001-05-14 Mac istället för Windows 2000

Study after study has shown that Macintoshes are less expensive to support and maintain than Wintel machines. Wintel computers typically cost four to 10 times as much in support costs. Even Intel÷s own internal study showed that it was costing them four times as much to support Windows machines as it did to support their Macintoshes (yes, Intel used Macintoshes for mission critical work “ and since that study they have been expanding their use of Macintoshes).

Independent studies over the years continually show that worker productivity is substantially higher on Macintoshes than on Wintel computers. And the difference is greatest in the creative fields (pre-press, illustration, digital photography, 2-D and 3-D animation, 3-D modelling and rendering, film special effects, broadcast video editting, CD-ROM production, multi-media, music composition and performance, sound editting, and web site production), where the Macintosh is the most prevalent computer (even more than the high end graphics work stations “ and Macintosh OS X (formerly Rhapsody) will bring the Macintosh to the high end graphics work stations late this year)